In recent years, a grassroots initiative has emerged under the name Stop Killing Games, a campaign that has put its finger on a wound the video game industry would rather ignore. Its central demand is simple: if players have paid…
A storm hit social media this week. FFmpeg maintainers, the developers behind one of the world’s most important open-source multimedia libraries, were accused of demanding monetary compensation and license acknowledgments from commercial platforms using their code. Among those…
There was a time when the words "open source" carried with them a sense of rebellion, innovation, and idealism. It wasn’t just a model of software development, it was a philosophy. A global movement driven by volunteers, hobbyists, and…
There’s a quiet shift happening in the digital world, so quiet, most people don’t notice it until it’s too late. We’re living in a time where you can spend money on something, hold a receipt in your inbox, see…